William H. Winder

William Henry Winder (1775-1824) was a general of the US Army during the War of 1812.

Biography
William Henry Winder was born in Somerset County, Maryland in 1775, and he worked as a lawyer in Baltimore from 1798 to 1812. Winder was commissioned as a colonel of the US Army at the start of the War of 1812, later rising to the rank of Brigadier-General. Winder was captured at Stoney Creek in 1813, and he was exchanged the following year. Winder commanded the militia army at Bladensburg as leader of the 10th Military District around Washington DC in 1814, and his 24 August 1814 defeat there at the hands of the British Army was one of the worst military disasters in American history. He was court-martialled after the battle, but later acquitted of all blame. His son John H. Winder would serve as a Confederate general during the American Civil War.